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Corneal reconstruction by stem cells and bioengineering

Overview of attention for article published in Clinical Ophthalmology, September 2012
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Title
Corneal reconstruction by stem cells and bioengineering
Published in
Clinical Ophthalmology, September 2012
DOI 10.2147/opth.s33826
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Authors

Olli Arjamaa

Abstract

Almost 300 million people are visually impaired worldwide due to various eye diseases such as cataracts, glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and corneal diseases. Notably, ten million people are blind because of severe ocular surface diseases and the majority of cases occur in developing countries. Blinding ocular surface diseases have, however, become treatable by grafting of surface layers, or by full-thickness transplantation of the cornea. As the demand for human corneal tissue for surface reconstruction and transplantation far exceeds the supply, methods are being developed to supplement tissue donation. Xenotransplantation of the cornea or cells from genetically modified pigs may become one of the solutions. Transplantation of limbal stem cells within tissue biopsies, to restore the transparency of the cornea is another remarkable method, which has shown its potential in several clinical studies. The combination of stem cell technology and engineering of biocompatible tissue equivalent, still at preclinical stage, has shown us how synthetic corneal tissue is able to guide cultured corneal stromal stem cells of human origin, to become native-like stroma, the most important layer of the cornea. These findings give hope for a large-quantity production of biomaterial for corneal reconstruction. As such, clinical ophthalmologists should become more familiar with the methods of laboratory science.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Mexico 1 4%
Turkey 1 4%
United States 1 4%
Unknown 24 89%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 5 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 19%
Student > Master 3 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 7%
Student > Bachelor 2 7%
Other 3 11%
Unknown 7 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 26%
Medicine and Dentistry 6 22%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 4%
Immunology and Microbiology 1 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 4%
Other 2 7%
Unknown 9 33%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 11 November 2013.
All research outputs
#16,868,837
of 25,584,565 outputs
Outputs from Clinical Ophthalmology
#1,516
of 3,687 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#121,969
of 188,508 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Clinical Ophthalmology
#14
of 32 outputs
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